A 77-year-old retired primary school teacher was jailed yesterday for a disgraceful breach of trust where he sexually abused a 9-year-old boy eight times in the early 1990s.

Tommy Barker rounds up some of the movers and shakers in an otherwise depressed year on the domestic property front

A three-month-old baby girl has died in a fire at her home in Ballincollig, Co Cork, this morning.

GO just that little bit further out of the city and you get great value - comparatively speaking.